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Chris Davis on first homer and the team's early struggles on offense

Chris Davis on first homer and the team's early struggles on offense
It might have been a bit of a footnote in a game where the Orioles were blown out and Ubaldo Jimenez did not pitch well again Sunday, but Chris Davis did get into the homer column. Last season Davis hit nine homers in April on his way to 37 by the all-star break and to a club-record 53 for the season. The longest Davis went at any point last season without a home run was 10 games and this year his drought reached 11 games until he connected in the eighth inning Sunday. I asked Davis how he...
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Off to good start, Meek works to gain trust of his new teammates and manager

Off to good start, Meek works to gain trust of his new teammates and manager
During the 2010 season, right-hander Evan Meek pitched to an ERA of 2.14 out of the Pittsburgh Pirates bullpen and made the National League All-Star team. He ranked among National League relief leaders in innings, opponent batting average and ERA. But Meek suffered a torn labrum early during the 2011 season. He continued to pitch, but it took him a long while to get back to the effectiveness he had during that All-Star season. He spent all of last season at Triple-A for the Texas Rangers and...
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A look at how injuries are already having an impact in the AL East

A look at how injuries are already having an impact in the AL East
The Yankees hosted the Red Sox last night on ESPN's "Sunday Night Baseball," but before the game the news came out that two of the marquee players would not even play in the game. The Yankees were holding out shortstop Derek Jeter due to a tight quad. The Red Sox were sending second baseman Dustin Pedroia back to Boston to check on his injured left wrist. It's bothered him since April 4 and he is 6-for-40 since that time. Jeter and Pedroia, two of the biggest names in the American League...
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Minor league notes on Givens, Davis, Rodriguez and more

Minor league notes on Givens, Davis, Rodriguez and more
Even though the Single-A Frederick Keys have not gotten off to a good start, going 3-7 through their first 10 games, a couple of their players sure have. That includes relief pitcher Mychal Givens. The 23-year-old right-hander was converted from an infielder to a pitcher last season at Single-A Delmarva. The Orioles' second-round pick in 2009, Givens went 2-3 with a 4.22 ERA and three saves for Delmarva. Over 42 2/3 innings, he walked 19 with 36 strikeouts, allowing just one homer, and had a...
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Jimenez on today's outing, poor start plus Davis and Wieters quotes

Jimenez on today's outing, poor start plus Davis and Wieters quotes
In a very quiet Orioles clubhouse Ubaldo Jimenez talked about his third straight poor start for his new team. "Tough one, really bad one," Jimenez said. "Couldn't be there for the team once again. I've been missing right down the middle of the plate. I've been making too many mistakes right down the middle. That is something I have to work on. Executing the pitches. If I want to go away, make it be there, instead of right down the middle of the plate." Jimenez gave up 10 hits and five...
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Jimenez hit hard as O's lose series finale 11-3

Jimenez hit hard as O's lose series finale 11-3
Ubaldo Jimenez was hoping to put it all together today in his third Orioles start, but it didn't happen. Jimenez allowed five runs this afternoon as Toronto crushed the Orioles 11-3 in front of 39,281 at Camden Yards. The right-hander, who came in with an 0-2 record and 6.75 ERA, gave up a long homer to Colby Rasmus, the second batter he faced. It didn't get much better after that throughout the day. He was knocked out during Toronto's biggest inning of the year, a five-run top of the...
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O's game blog: Jimenez looks for his first win as an Oriole

O's game blog: Jimenez looks for his first win as an Oriole
The Orioles will try to win another series today after losing the first game. That is hard to do, but the O's did it at New York and will try to do it this afternoon against Toronto. The Orioles have lost the series opener three straight times this, but the one time this year they won the first game was opening day and they then lost the next two to Boston. Ubaldo Jimenez tries to get into the good pitching column today. Suddenly the O's have some starters putting good outings together and...
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Zach Britton on his good start, a Zach Davies update and a marquee minor league matchup

Zach Britton on his good start, a Zach Davies update and a marquee minor league matchup
During his pregame press conference today Orioles manager Buck Showalter talked briefly about Double-A Bowie right-hander Zach Davies. Davies, the club's 11th-ranked prospect according to Baseball America, left his start in the second inning at Akron yesterday when he took a line drive off his right forearm, very close to his pitching elbow. "I think Davies is okay," Showalter said. "Our guys said he might miss a start. He's a little sore. I saw the tape of it, he got smoked." Davies...
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Ubaldo Jimenez: "I want to put everything together"

Ubaldo Jimenez: "I want to put everything together"
After two starts when he has not been at his best, new Orioles pitcher Ubaldo Jimenez hopes to show the home fans his stuff today when he pitches against the Blue Jays at Camden Yards. "I haven't been able to be there for the team the first two games," Jimenez said Saturday. "But I look forward to doing that (today). As I get out on the mound I feel more comfortable. I want to put everything together. My last game I was able to have a good fastball, but I didn't have my breaking...
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Clubhouse quotes from Lough, Hunter, Norris and more

Clubhouse quotes from Lough, Hunter, Norris and more
The Orioles played their first extra-inning game of the year and walked off with a 2-1, 12-inning win over Toronto. Steve Lombardozzi tripled with one out in the 12th and scored the winning run on David Lough's single to left. The Orioles got outstanding pitching and finally ended a 15-inning scoreless streak in the last of the seventh inning. Tommy Hunter suffered his first blown save, but his teammates picked him up as the O's improved to 5-6. Here are some quotes from around the winning...
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David Lough with a walk-off single in the 12th as O's top Toronto

David Lough with a walk-off single in the 12th as O's top Toronto
It took longer than they wanted, but the Orioles picked up a hard-earned win tonight at Camden Yards. After they lost a 1-0 lead with two outs in the ninth, they won it 2-1 in 12 innings. With one out in the 12th, Steve Lombardozzi tripled to right off Todd Redmond. David Lough followed with a line-drive single to left for the walk-off victory. Your browser does not support iframes. Zach Britton got the win with two scoreless innings of relief and he has now pitched 8 1/3 scoreless on the...
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O's game blog: Bud Norris on the mound against Toronto

O's game blog: Bud Norris on the mound against Toronto
Bud Norris makes his second start of the season here tonight against Toronto. His first went well for a short time. He needed just 25 pitches to sail through the first two innings last Saturday at Detroit, but he then gave up five runs over the next three innings on 78 pitches. Norris made five Camden Yards starts last season and went 2-1 with an ERA of 7.30, but the Orioles went 4-1 in those games. It's certainly not a trend for him since he ranked second in the National League in home ERA...
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Steve Clevenger on batting fifth and an update on Bowie pitcher Zach Davies

Steve Clevenger on batting fifth and an update on Bowie pitcher Zach Davies
Precautionary X-rays on the right arm of Double-A Bowie pitcher Zach Davies were negative today and he's listed as day-to-day. Davies got the start this afternoon for Bowie at Akron. But he left the game in the last of the second when he was struck by a line drive on the right arm, specifically his pitching elbow according to the team's Twitter feed. Matt Bischoff came on to pitch. Over 1 1/3 innings, Davies gave up two hits and one run with two walks and one strikeout. He threw 26 pitches....
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Hardy and Lough talk about returning to the Oriole lineup

Hardy and Lough talk about returning to the Oriole lineup
J.J. Hardy is back in the Orioles lineup tonight and feeling pretty excited about that. "Really good. It's been a long week for me," Hardy said this afternoon. "These back spasms are no fun. I hope they are behind me and I won't have to deal with them for the rest of the year." Hardy hasn't played since a week ago today at Detroit when he went 2-for-3 with a walk. He is batting .333 (5-for-15) on the season. The back spasms and tightness have kept him out of the last five games and six...
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O's minor leaguer hospitalized after being hit by a pitch last night (Davies exits Bowie start)

O's minor leaguer hospitalized after being hit by a pitch last night (Davies exits Bowie start)
Orioles minor league infielder Anthony Caronia is in a Baltimore hospital after getting hit in the face by a pitch last night while playing for the Single-A Delmarva Shorebirds at home against Greensboro. During his first at-bat, in the last of the third inning, Caronia took a fastball from Greensboro starter right-hander Domingo German up and in and the lefty hitter could not avoid getting hit. He walked off the field with a trainer, but was later transported from Salisbury to...
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Ten games into the new season the Orioles are still looking for consistency

Ten games into the new season the Orioles are still looking for consistency
OK, through 10 games to start the 2014 season, the Orioles have not played overall crisp baseball. I think we are certainly going to see better. So far, we've seen some baserunning mistakes and some mental errors. We saw a couple of physical miscues that were costly last night. The Orioles had made just one error all year until Jonathan Schoop made two at third base within a span of three batters in the top of the fourth. He just made two bad throws. The O's had just 10 multi-error games all...
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Schoop, Jones and Tillman comment after the O's loss to Toronto

Schoop, Jones and Tillman comment after the O's loss to Toronto
Chris Tillman gave up just three singles over eight innings and no earned runs tonight, but he took the 2-0 loss against Toronto. One of his teammates said he could not have done much more to get a win. "I told him after the game. That was one of the best I've ever seen Tillman throw. They've got some thump over there. He threw the ball tremendous," Adam Jones said. Tillman falls to 1-1 and has given up just two earned runs over 21 1/3 innings for an ERA of 0.84 after three...
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Tillman takes tough loss as O's fall 2-0 to Toronto

Tillman takes tough loss as O's fall 2-0 to Toronto
The Orioles had a tough night on offense and in the field, but a good night on the mound. But it did not produce a victory as the Toronto Blue Jays used a pair of unearned runs to post a 2-0 win in front of 22,327 at Camden Yards. The Orioles lose the opener of this six-game homestand to fall to 4-6. Toronto took a 2-0 lead in the fourth and the rally was aided by shaky O's defense. Jonathan Schoop made two throwing errors in the inning and the O's failed to turn a potential 3-6-1...
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O's game blog: Orioles host Toronto in series opener

O's game blog: Orioles host Toronto in series opener
The Orioles are 3-0 this year when the opposing starter has been Jon Lester, Justin Verlander or Masahiro Tanaka. So how difficult can it be to beat Dustin McGowan? Actually, it doesn't work that way and the O's will have to earn a win tonight if they get one. But McGowan is 0-3 with a 6.99 career ERA against the Orioles in 13 games, six as a starter. Chris Tillman starts for the Orioles. He is 1-0 with a 1.35 ERA through two starts. Over his last 24 starts dating to June 4, Tillman is 13-5...
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Chris Davis on the search for his first homer and rookie Schoop

Chris Davis on the search for his first homer and rookie Schoop
Chris Davis was a rookie and top prospect once. So he can relate to Jonathan Schoop as the Orioles' 22-year-old infielder begins to settle in as a big league player. "I think he's starting to find it a little bit," Davis said. "The first few games he was swinging at a lot of pitches. The more he's up here, the more he gets a chance to understand what they are trying to do to him. "From what I've seen so far, his work ethic hasn't changed, which is good. He's kept his approach. I...
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